Peoria Area Veterinary Group

Happy birthday to all shelter dogs today! Today is a special day to celebrate shelter dogs whose actual date of birth is unknown. Let's celebrate by adopting a shelter dog, donating to an animal shelter, or volunteering your time at an animal shelter. If you are unable to adopt or volunteer, you can still help by donating to an animal shelter. Every little bit helps.

Today is World Snake Day! It's a day to celebrate snakes, which are often underappreciated and misunderstood. They may be slimy and slithery, but they do have historic and medical significance. For example, the Staff of Aesculapius, the official symbol of the American Veterinary Medical Association, is a single snake with the letter "V" superimposed.

Today is National Pet Fire Safety Day! ♨️Pets cause over 1,000 house fires each year in the United States. ♨️Nearly 360,000 house fires occur each year in the United States. ♨️Over 40,000 pets die every year in house fires. Awareness can save lives. The best way to protect your pet is to include them in your fire safety plan. Pet alert window clings, which should be available at your local fire house, that First Responders will see and know to look out for any pets inside. There are many ways to keep your pet from causing a fire. Blow out candles before leaving home, block off access to the kitchen or remove stove knobs if pets can reach it, and keep any and all wires out of chewing distance.

It's National Kitten day! Show us your kitties!

Come work with us at our Peoria location! Our team is super excited to meet you! Apply online @ PAVG.NET.

Today is National Rescue Dog Day! There are so many dogs in need of a good home everywhere in the world. Let's help reduce the populations in animal shelters by adopting through them. These dogs are in the shelters quite possibly for most of their lives and deserve better. Let's see some pictures of dogs that have won your hearts over and have been rescued.

Happy Memorial Day! Today is a day of rememberance of military men and women that have lost their lives in service of this country. Make sure to keep your pet's safe this holiday!

We are looking for some highly energetic and experienced individuals to work at our clinics. Please visit our website to learn more about the positions we are hiring for. Please call us with any questions.

Anxiety, a mental condition, is the body’s natural response to stress and persistent fear. Dogs, like humans, are prone to anxiety. According to doctors, anxiety is a rather healthy expression of a dog’s emotions, but it can often spiral into something disastrous at any minute. Dog Anxiety Awareness Week recognizes that the emotional well-being of your anxious furry friends is in jeopardy and a human intervention from time to time is an essential requirement. Dogs can develop anxiety for various reasons. Some dogs may experience anxiety as a response to traumatic experiences and health conditions, while others may experience it due to various environmentally related causes. Symptoms of Anxiety in dogs: ▪️Aggression (destructive behavior) ▪️Urinating or defecating in the house ▪️Panic (panting, pacing, active escape behavior) ▪️Depression (trembling, tail-tucking, hiding, reduced activity and passive escape behaviors ) ▪️Restlessness (Pacing, tail chasing, and circling) ▪️Repetitive or compulsive behaviors (Drooling or panting, lesions secondary to licking and chewing, or excessive barking) So how do we treat anxiety in dogs? ▪️Training, counter-conditioning, or medication. 🐾If your dog is experiencing anxiety please contact your veterinarian. Start with a thorough checkup and a behavioral consultation.

National Tabby Day falls on April 30 worldwide, celebrating those lovely striped cats. Thought by some people as a cat breed, tabby is not. It’s a coat pattern seen in almost all domestic cats. There are four known patterns on these tabbies’ coats: the classic, mackerel, spotted and ticked. Also, there’s a variant of these patterns — the orange tabby. Orange tabbies have a stereotype of being lazier than other cats. It’s probably due to the popularity of a fictional cat who, you know, hates Mondays and loves lasagna and sleeping. The classic tabby, also known as blotched tabby, has the 'M' pattern on the forehead but, rather than primarily thin stripes or spots, the body markings are thick curving bands in whorls or a swirled pattern, with a distinctive mark on each side of the body resembling a bullseye. Instead of having bands of stripes, spotted Tabby cats have bands of spots. The spots vary in size and can resemble broken stripes similar to those of a mackerel Tabby White spotted cats, also called piebald or bicolor, are simply cats with any quantity of white on them but that aren't entirely white! The white spots can be limited to a locket on the chest or just some white mittens, up to an almost entirely white cat except for its ears and tail. Ticked tabby cats exhibit hardly any stripes or spots. Although their coat stripes are very thin and barely visible on legs, face or tail, these are tabby cats through and through. It's not the coat but the hairs themselves that are striped. Patched Tabbies have patches (hence the name) of dark or grayish brown and patches of red or orange with the Tabby pattern throughout both colors. They are often referred to as Tortoiseshell (or Tortie) Tabbies because the brown and orange spots are like those seen on the shell of a tortoise.

Happy Earth Day! Celebrate this day with your pets! ♻️Recycle old materials to make new toys. 💧Reuse your pet's water to water your plants. 🌎Donate old towels and blankets to local shelters or vet clinics. 🌳Walk your pet and save on energy and electricity. Reduce.Resuse.Recycle

Happy National Cat Lady Day! Show us your kitties!

Happy National Pet Day! Even though this is everyday -This day is set aside to encourage us to pay special attention to pets that may not get the extra attention. Please share your pets!

Does your dog exhibit any of these signs? If so, give us a call today to set up an appointment to discuss options for pain management for your beloved friend.

***Doctor of the Month Video*** We hope that you all enjoy this video of Dr. Lissa answering a few randomly chosen questions that some of you have asked! It was a lot of fun to make and we are wanting to do this every few months or so! Since it was a Cancer Clinic day, we got to say hi to one of our wonderful oncologists, Dr. Fan, and some of our great staff! We hope that you enjoy! Thank you to everyone who participated. We appreciate each and every one of you!🐾❤

We got the doctor of the month, or doctor questions, done and edited today! It is our first time trying this out, so it is longer than we'd hoped, but we hope that you enjoy! If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to send us a private message or you can comment down below! As we've said, we are going to try and do this almost every month with different doctors as a fun way for everyone to get to know them! We may even do months where we will ask the other staff some questions, too! We hope that everyone has a very safe and fun New Years Eve tonight! See you next year!😉🥳🐾

What was your favorite part about today? Do you and your family have any holiday traditions? We hope that you all had a safe and a Merry Christmas 🎄💚❤️